We have a steady fifteen with a couple of girls: Preston, Alvin, Terry, Malcolm, Ronald, Danny, Arthur, Marcus, Leslie, Tanika, Elliot, Dashun, Pheodus, Antwon, and me. It takes a village to raise a child, and our village is gang members, drug dealers, drug addicts, and prostitutes. It’s easy to become a product of this, but I feel like the coaches are using rowing to get us into college and to change our village.
